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Neonotonia wightii

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Identification
Neonotonia wightii (Arn.) J.A.Lackey [family FABACEAE ]
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Entry for Neonotonia wightii Wight & Arn. Lackey [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 5, (2001) Author: B. Mackinder, R. Pasquet, R. Polhill and B. Verdcourt
Names
Neonotonia wightii Wight & Arn. Lackey [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Phytologia 37: 210 (1977). Type from southern India.
Notonia wightii Wight & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient.: 208 (1834).
Johnia wightii Wight & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient.: 449 (1834).
Glycine wightii Wight & Arn. Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Taxon 15: 35 (1966); in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 529 (1971). —Drummond in Kirkia 8: 220 (1972). —Jacobsen in Kirkia 9: 160 (1973). —Thulin in Opera Bot., number 68: 120 (1983). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 414 (1989).
Information
Perennial trailing or climbing herb often with a woody rootstock. Stems sparsely to densely hairy. Leaflets 1.2–15 × 0.5–13 cm, ovate to elliptic, mucronate, glabrous to densely hairy on both surfaces; petiole 2.5–12 cm long; rhachis 2–18 mm long; petiolules 1–3 mm long; stipules 1–10 × 1–3 mm, ovate or oblong-lanceolate. Inflorescence many-flowered, lax or dense; inflorescence axis 2–55 cm long; peduncles 2–10 cm long; pedicels 0.5–3.5 mm long; bracts and bracteoles 1–5 mm long, lanceolate. Calyx sparsely to densely hairy; tube 1–2 mm long; lobes 1–6 mm long, linear-lanceolate. Standard white, mauve, blue or white with mauve blotch inside, 3–12 × 4–8 mm, obovate, rounded or rhombic; wings and keel white or tinged mauve; wings sometimes with tooth or lobe at junction of blade and claw. Pods 1.5–3.5 cm × 2–4 mm, linear, glabrous to densely hairy, somewhat constricted between the seeds. Seeds reddish to orange-brown, minutely granular, somewhat compressed, 2–4 × 1–3 × 1–2 mm, with a white funicle remnant.

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